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      I took him to Boston with me in 1890 where his father had a brother who had several children, and the next morning peeked through a shutter and saw his uncle carry some rich dirt in a sieve; he laughed. “He acts just like Pa, puttering around to sift dirt.”

M. J. Kimball to Geo. W. Kimball, Sept. 20, 1898, in
The Kimball Family News 1:1 (Topeka, Kansas, October 1898) : 165 : link
 

5 November 2025